English 105: College English I (Alison Jameson)


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Assignment 1: Definition Exploration - Open Source Science. Identify major players. Use resources on this wiki to help shape your answers. Please post responses on the blog.
Assignment 2: Cause and Effect - Causes and effects of disease, prevention of solving the problem. Why is this still a problem...what are the causes and effects of pharmaceutical neglect? Where is the disease most prevalent, and why is most prevalent there? Economics, socia. justice issues, poverty, political issues...

Assignment 3: (In Class) Descriptive-Narrative Paper - Imagine you are living in the country where your disease is an a killer. Write a narrative from this perspective (a day in life).

Assignment 4: Persuasive - How will open source science address the needs of these communities as outlined in papers 2 & 3?

Weekly Assignments:
Compile Vocabulary List - FInd one word in the blog (that no one else is doing) nad post a definition IN YOUR OWN WORDS blog.Assignment Overview:

Mini Process Essay: How are drugs tested?
  1. How are new anti-malarial drugs tested? (Mini Process)
  2. What are problems with the existing drugs to treat malaria? (RESEARCH)
  3. Are there political barriers to treating malaria? (RESEARCH PAPER)
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Brainstorm for Research Paper:


10 pages, 10 sources

Statistics (indicating present needs/issues - <4 years)

Ancillary/historical materials - open end

All papers/essay must feed into research paper